Hey there, as some off you may have noticed, I've been looking for a way to calculate the SID of a Pokémon, without the use of applications such as Instachek ('cause these are locked-down).
My preliminary investigation shows that PIDs of chained shiny Pokémon are created in a similar fashion than in previous generations:
If you fetch the PKX of a chained shiny Pokémon, recreate it under Pokegén and employ the PID finder, you shall get a PID that matches the SID
When you take the PID and proceed to calculate the SID using the "manual method" you will get a SID value that is very close to the real SID (with a spread/margin of +/- 7 or less, meaning that if your resulting SID was "714", it might be in a range from 707 to 721). I believe such spread is the result of the normal in-game dynamics (described in the method's tutorial)
So, considering these results, I theorize that PID generation dynamics for CS pokémon in Gen 6 could have been retained
If you wanna give it a try (remember, it must be a chained shiny PKX's data):
1. Fetch PKX editor and read the Pokémon’s data
2. Introduce the following data in pokégen:
On the FIFTH TAB:
OT ID
OT SID
OT Name
On the FIRST TAB > "F" button > PID FINDER:
Pokémon nature
Pokémon species
Gender (set to either)
Ability (set to either)
IVs (set to "=" on its respective drop-menu)
CS method
3. Hit "Search" (you'll most likely get a single PID)
4. Take the PID and use the aforementioned method to calculate the SID.
How is this helpful? Well, I believe there are 2 reasons:
This may ease the identification of the game's Pokémon seeds
There are higher chances to find a SID reversing the PID generation process (I am currently working on this)
Credits to the creators/researchers that respectively designed/deduced Pokégen & the SID manual calculation method.
Comments appreciated,
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